How do I use a self signed certificate for a HTTPS Node.js server?

Question

I have started writing a wrapper for an API which requires all requests to be over HTTPS. Instead of making requests to the actual API while I am developing and testing it I

Answer 1

This procedure allows you to create both a certificate authority & a certificate :

1. grab this ca.cnf file to use as a configuration shortcut :

   wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/anders94/https-authorized-clients/master/keys/ca.cnf

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2. create a new certificate authority using this configuration :

   openssl req -new -x509 -days 9999 -config ca.cnf -keyout ca-key.pem -out ca-cert.pem

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3. now that we have our certificate authority in ca-key.pem and ca-cert.pem, let's generate a private key for the server :

   openssl genrsa -out key.pem 4096

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4. grab this server.cnf file to use as a configuration shortcut :

   wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/anders94/https-authorized-clients/master/keys/server.cnf

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5. generate the certificate signing request using this configuration :

   openssl req -new -config server.cnf -key key.pem -out csr.pem

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6. sign the request :

   openssl x509 -req -extfile server.cnf -days 999 -passin "pass:password" -in csr.pem -CA ca-cert.pem -CAkey ca-key.pem -CAcreateserial -out cert.pem

I found this procedure here, along with more information on how to use these certificates.